Top Companies Offering Internships in Madrid (Oct 2026)

You're hunting for an internship in Madrid and you want to know who's actually hiring this month, not who has a nice careers page. Here's the short answer: the JobRise live jobs feed shows 13 open internship listings in Madrid as of 14 October 2026, and you can browse them all in the internship listings for Madrid. Eight companies account for those 13 listings. That's a small field, which means every application you send has to land on the right person's desk.

One warning before the ranking: these counts are open listings on one feed on one date, not a market survey. Companies move fast and roles close. Treat this as a map of where to aim this week.

The companies ranked by open internship listings#

Delivery Hero leads with 4 open listings, more than anyone else in the slice. Two titles are visible in the data: "Account Manager Intern - Q Commerce Catman" and "Intern Account Manager Top Accounts Spain". Both sit in commercial account work, so if you've done sales, retail category work, or anything with client numbers, that's your entry point.

ARCHIMED and Uber follow with 2 listings each. ARCHIMED's visible role is "Junior Project Manager - Internship (Lyon, France)", which is worth a second look because the title names a different city, so read the location line carefully before you apply. Uber's two roles are "2027 Account Management Intern, Madrid, Spain" and "2027 Operations Intern - Madrid", one commercial and one operations, and both clearly tagged for the 2027 intake.

Then come five companies with 1 listing each: Q ENERGY, Destinus, Zoomo, Red Bull, and Datadog. The visible titles are "Trainee Finance - Treasury and AP (all genders)" at Q ENERGY, "Travel & Expense Intern" at Destinus, and "Global Digital Marketing Intern" at Zoomo. Red Bull and Datadog appear in the counts but their titles aren't in the slice I'm working from, so open their listings and read them before assuming anything about the role.

My honest read: Delivery Hero and Uber together hold 6 of the 13 listings, so if you ignore them you're fighting over half the field. Apply there first, even if the brand feels generic to you.

How Madrid compares with the whole country#

Madrid holds 13 of the 24 internship listings open across Spain on this snapshot, so the capital has more than half the country's intern supply right now. Barcelona and other cities aren't showing in this slice at all, which is a feed limitation and not proof they have nothing. Check the JobRise Hiring Report: Spain for the wider country picture before you decide Madrid is your only option.

The city context number matters too: 76 open listings of all kinds in Madrid, of which 13 are internships. So internships are a thin slice of Madrid hiring. If you're open to junior full-time roles alongside internships, you've got a much bigger pond to fish in.

Job type split in this slice is 8 full-time and 5 internship. That gap tells you some "internship" search results are actually junior jobs with intern in the title, and some are proper internships. Read the contract line in each posting.

How to target each type of employer#

Big platform employers like Delivery Hero and Uber run structured intakes with fixed start dates, and the "2027" tags on Uber's roles prove it. Apply early, use their own portal, and mirror the language of the posting in your first line. They filter hard on availability dates and on whether you can commit full-time.

Recruiters and staffing firms appear in this data too, and ARCHIMED's role title suggests a project-based placement. With these, your CV needs to be scannable in seconds because they're matching you against a client brief, so put the exact skill names from the posting in your top third.

Specialist scale-ups like Destinus, Zoomo, and Q ENERGY hire one intern at a time and often read applications themselves. Send a short note that shows you actually looked at what they do. Generic enthusiasm reads as spam to a 20-person team.

Referral and outreach scripts that work#

A referral beats a cold form, always. Find someone on the team, not the CEO, and ask small.

Cold message to a future teammate:

Hi Marta, I'm applying for the Travel & Expense Intern role at Destinus and I'd love to hear how the team works day to day. No pressure to refer me, any honest impression helps. Thanks, Álex

Referral ask once you've had a reply:

Thanks again for the chat. I'm sending my application this week for the Operations Intern role. If you think my background fits, would you be comfortable passing my CV to whoever screens it? Totally fine if not.

Follow-up after applying, sent 5 to 7 days later:

Hi, I applied for the Global Digital Marketing Intern role on 14 October and wanted to flag one thing that isn't obvious from my CV: I ran paid social for a student society last term and can share the numbers. Happy to send them over.

Keep each message under 50 words. Recruiters skim for 6 seconds and long paragraphs get skipped.

The 7-step plan#

• Pick your top 3 companies from the ranking above and write down why each one fits you in one sentence.
• Read the full posting for each role and copy the exact job title into your CV header so the screener sees a match instantly.
• Rewrite your two strongest experiences as bullets with numbers, using the "did X, got Y" shape.
• Run each target company through the free company insights tool so you walk into any call knowing their size and recent hiring.
• Apply through the official channel first, then send the cold message above to someone on the team the same day.
• Track everything in a simple sheet: company, role title, date applied, contact name, next follow-up date.
• Follow up once at day 7 and once at day 14, then move on. Silence is an answer.

A worked example: rewriting a weak CV bullet#

Most people write this:

Helped with sales tasks in a shop during summer.

Write this instead:

Ran the weekend shift in a Madrid phone shop, handled 40+ customer transactions a day and upsold 3 insurance plans a week, the highest on the team that month.

The second version gives a number, a scope, and a result. That's what makes a screener stop scrolling.

FAQ#

How many internship listings are open in Madrid right now?

On the JobRise live jobs feed dated 14 October 2026, there are 13 open internship listings in Madrid, across 8 companies. Twelve of those were posted in the last 30 days and 5 in the last 7 days, so the field is moving.

Which company has the most internship openings in Madrid?

Delivery Hero has 4 open listings in this snapshot, the highest count of any company in the slice. Uber and ARCHIMED follow with 2 each. Counts change weekly, so recheck before you apply.

Do these internships come with a salary?

No listing in this slice shows a salary figure. Some internships in Spain are unpaid or paid as a small stipend, and the rules vary by contract type and region, so confirm the pay directly with the employer before you accept.

Are the ARCHIMED and Uber roles actually based in Madrid?

Uber's two roles name Madrid in the title. ARCHIMED's visible role title says "Lyon, France", so double-check the location line in the full posting before spending time on an application.

Should I apply through JobRise or the company site?

Apply through whichever channel the listing names first, then send a short message to someone on the team to make sure a human sees it. Tracking the role in a sheet keeps you from applying twice or losing the follow-up date.